Paulo Fonseca is not currently at risk of losing his job as AC Milan head coach because the blame for the defeat against Fiorentina is seen more as being with the players, a report claims.
SportMediaset reports how in the aftermath of the fourth defeat in the first nine games of the season (two in Serie A and two in the Champions League) – which is curiously the same record as Julen Lopetegui has with West Ham – there has been talk of pressure on Fonseca.
Instead, there is not a word about the future of the coach coming from Casa Milan because Giorgio Furlani, Geoffrey Moncada and Zlatan Ibrahimovic believe he is untouchable for now. It is the players, guilty of an attitude that is not up to par, who must give precise and immediate answers.
There were a lot of incidents during last night’s defeat to Fiorentina for which the squad deserve blame, including the overruling of the penalty hierarchies, the questionable work rate of certain players, Theo Hernandez’s red card and Fikayo Tomori’s mistake before the winner.
Fonseca has not been completely absolved of blame because some of his choices have certainly raised doubts and contribute to distancing the team, or part of the team.
Thus, the club’s leaders are wondering how this obvious self-management is possible and whether there is a real and significant disconnect between Fonseca’s ideas and those of the team.
The careless mistakes and any lack of professionalism will no longer be tolerated, and the coach will be given renewed confidence, at least until the November break which could be a good time for a first assessment and unless there is a sudden shock.
This team is built for a 3-4-3 formation!!
———————Maignan———————-
——–Pavlovic—-Gabbia—–Tomori——-
Royal(?)——Fofana—–Reijnders——-Theo
—–Pulisic——–Morata———-Leao—–
Two changes
Bart instead of Tomo
Jim/Calab instead of Royal
I said leave Tomori on the bench in the other article, I will say it again here: we-must-bench-Tomori-until-his-attitude-improves. Do not even bring up his technicality or how important he is to the system. Stealing the ball from the designated PK taker alone is enough to bench him. The problem is his attitude.
royal? put jiminez there he is far better than royal at attacking
What did he do on the halftime after theo take penalty from pulisic??? I guess nothing since they did the same thing after few minutes in second half,authority 0
NO DESPIDES A FONSECA… SE!! ACABÓ!!! LA TEMPORADA!!!!🙎🏻♂️🤬😡
So the blame is on the players and not Fonseca who lost them? Seems right.
Agree, its not Fonseca its the players.
He should have never said during the press conference that the players did not listen to him. That was not smart at all. He told everybody that he has lost the team. It is Fonseca. The players do not respect him. If he does not have the respect of the players, he has to go.
The players are misbehaving because there is no leadership from the top and they don’t respect Fonseca, so, yes, Fonseca is at least equally responsible for this as the players. I mean, it’s unbelievable! The first PK happened in first half so Fonseca had all the time to say to the players during the halftime break: “I’m the boss. Next PK we get and all of them from now on, Pulisic will take them; that’s an order and whoever doesn’t obey will face harsh consequences.”
I mean, a loan player (who hasn’t been able to shoot right) overrules the coach and refuses to give the ball to the coach-designated official PK-taker (who hasn’t missed a single PK in his entire professional career for club and country)??? And then misses??? How on Earth did Fonseca allow that???
You can’t be an effective coach if you don’t know how to command respect from your own players. Our amateur management wanted a yes-man. However when you right a spineless coach who is a yes-man to the management, that’s what you get: the players will feel his weakness and won’t say “yes sir” to him.
But the Conte hypothesis 🙂 … did you really want Lakaka as our striker.
We already have lakaka,but a skinnier version which somehow has even worse finishining than lakaka